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Wimple

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

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A veil or hood; but the Hebrew signifies, properly, a broad and large mantle or shawl. See Ruth 3:15 , Boaz gives Ruth six measures of barley, which she carries away in her mantle, rather than veil, as in the English translation. So in Isaiah 3:22 .

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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Wimple'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ats/​w/wimple.html. 1859.
 
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